Rayleigh, remembering their training together, tells Luffy to go straight for the top. In a shopping mall in Grove 30, Robin explains to Nami the history of the relationship between human, fish, and mermen. Sentomaru then hits him again and knocks Luffy into a tree, managing to actually hurt him as the marine reveals he not a devil fruit user.

Chopper yells at him for this, but Brook convinces him to relax by mentioning Sanji has it covered until they get there. As the marines continue to mobilize outside the house, Rayleigh manages to remove the collar from Keimi and throws it aside before it explodes without the need for a key, much to the astonishment of the Straw Hats and to the annoyance of Franky who had just found the keys; he throws them to the remaining slaves to free themselves. This man however turns out to be At a Marine base, it is revealed to Garp that Rayleigh is being sold at the auction house, who comments that he probably is selling himself to pay off a gambling dept. It had everything that one could want from One Piece. As a Thanks, Usopp friend, Kaya gifted them the "Going Merry" The Straw Hats first pirate ship.

Afterwards, The Pacifista begins to attack Zoro, but is temporarily stopped by Sanji and Brook, both of whom are quickly defeated. Luffy then gives the order to set sail and the Straw Hats, reunited after two years, continue their journey to the New World.

His orders are to find and crush the real Straw Hats that humiliated him. As the Straw Hats enter the base, they notice it is too quiet and they find out that the base is not an island, but a small village built in the middle of the sea. They realize that it is the Duval's beloved bison, Duval shouts that he does not need the base anymore - his only wish is to kill the Straw Hats. What is One Piece? Chopper and Brook try to save him only to realize that they cannot swim as well.

X Drake suddenly appears and kicks Kuma aside. Luffy tells the group that they would leave once Keimi has rid herself of her collar, but Law informs him that the marines already have the place surrounded. Berating himself for not being able to save even one of his friends.

But the man is panicking as he had a client that wanted to go fishing. Urouge suddenly toppled by them, bruised badly and citing his bad luck at running into a Shichibukai and, upon seeing Kizaru, an admiral as well. Kuma then appears before Luffy, paw raised, he tells the captain they will not meet each other again before Luffy too disappears at his touch. But soon he and the Straw Hats get to the task at hand.

Rayleigh then tells the group about Buggy and Shanks apprenticeship aboard Roger's ship, the latter of which ran into Rayleigh ten years afterward who told Rayleigh about Luffy, claiming that had met a kid that said the same things as their captain did. Rayleigh says that maybe she could reach different conclusions than those that they reached.

As they do so, they talk with Rayleigh where he reveals his relation with Gold Roger, much to their surprise (Hachi apparently knew this too but did not tell them since they just needed a coating-engineer).

Suddenly it seems like Usopp's attack managed to injure it badly, Franky notes that the Kuma clone is like him; enhanced with weapons but still only human and that one of Usopp's explosive projectiles must have went inside his mouth and dealt severe internal damage. Disco quickly closes the curtain while Sanji comments that Lucueva bit his own tongue off, preferring to face death than slavery. The Fakes foam at the mouth when they realize they had actually threatened the real deal.